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Mark Engler

Mark Engler

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. He can be reached via the website http://www.DemocracyUprising.com.

  • A Progressive Declaration Against Terror

    by Mark Engler June 18, 2004
    by Mark Engler June 18, 2004

    Fighting terror while opposing Bush.

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  • Bush’s Globalization

    by Mark Engler June 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler June 8, 2004

    A new globalization must resist both Clinton’s corporate vision and Bush’s imperial one.

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  • On the Necessity of Torture

    by Mark Engler May 11, 2004
    by Mark Engler May 11, 2004

    Ending abuses requires challenging an imperial conception of national purpose.

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  • Unhappy Birthday, World Bank!

    by Mark Engler April 22, 2004
    by Mark Engler April 22, 2004

    Protests this weekend will highlight the dramatic changes in the development debate of past years, and denounce the nefarious, US-backed policies that remain intact.

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  • My Political Suicide Note

    by Mark Engler April 13, 2004
    by Mark Engler April 13, 2004

    As a candidate for President, there are certain things that John Kerry can’t say. But I can.

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  • The Last Porto Alegre (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005

    Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years. (Translation into Arabic by Kefaya.org)

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  • Seattle At Five (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004

    Where activists stand five years after their landmark protests reshaped the globalization debate. Translation by ZNet Arabic.

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  • Why Wendell Matters (in Chinese)

    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004

    Seventy years old this week, the veteran sage of sustainable agriculture has made a life of stewardship, “staying home”–and turning off the computer. Translated into Chinese by the Taiwan Environmental …

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  • The End of “Constructive Engagement”

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2004

    The World Bank invites cooperation from civil society, then buries critical findings.

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  • The Peace Movement One Year Later

    by Mark Engler March 16, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 16, 2004

    One year after the invasion of Iraq, what has the peace movement accomplished? And where do we go from here?

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Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
  • TruthDig
  • Asia Times
  • Sierra Magazine
  • Labor Notes
  • New Politics
  • The Catholic Worker
  • The Des Moines Register
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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
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    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002